Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-21
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two words is the Appian Way of death,
and great multitude thrOng that road,
iostlipg and eibowing each Other, hasten
ing on swifter and Switter to die. For
how much would you walk the edge of the
root CT your house? For how much
would you come CUT on the most danger
Gus peak Of the Matterhorn and wave your
cap? You say: "No money could induce
me 10 do it." And yet you stand to-day,
with one foot on a CrumOling moment and
the other foot lifted, not knowing where
you viii pat it down, while the distance
between you and the bottom of the depth
ben ath you no Dlummet can measure, no
arithmetic calculate, no wing OF lightning
Clesye. And yet, the Bible tells Us that
unless man has new heart he cannot
get into heaven; and some of you are not
seeking for thar new heart. In Mexico
sometimes the ground suddenly opens and
man standing nesr the gap can see down
an appalling distance. But, o! if to-day,
at your feet, there should open the chasms
of the lost world, how you would fling
yourself back and hold the pew, and cry
d" cd save mellow! Now Now"
greet you to-day, my brother in the
very gate of eternity. Some of Us may
live longer and some of US may live
shorter time; but, 1T the longest, life is
so short that l feel We all stand on the
doorsill OF the great future. The next
step-all the angels of God cannot undo
the consequences. VIII your exit from
this life be rising or falling? The
righteous 90 up. The SAVIOR helps
them. Minis.ering spirits meet them.
The doors of Paradise open TO receive
them. Up. up, up. Oh. what & great
thing il is TO DE with s S.rUpg faith in
God Ike that watch Stonewall Jackson
mad, when il his expiring moments he
said: "Let us cross over the river ana
lie down under the lade." Bu5 to leave
this world unpreparedly is falling-ialliDg
from God, falling from nope, falling from
peace, falling from heaven-Swiftly fall
ing, wildly falling, forever falling. So it
was with one who had been eminent for
his intelligence, but who had omitted all
preparation for the future world, and
mad come down to his last hour. He said
to his wife, seated by the bedside: ooh,
don't talk to me about pain. 1t Is the mind,
woman, it is the mind. OF all the years
of my life | never lived one minute for
heaven. 1t is awfully dark here" he
whispered, "it is ewfully dark. | seem
to stand on the slippery edge of a great
gulf. shall fall! l am falling" And
with shrek, as when a man tumbles
over a precipice, he expired. Wise for
this world, ABOUT all the matters Of his
immortal soul he was, his life long, play
ing the fool.
| will take the case of some one in the
building to-day, and ask you what you
think about that case. He has been all
his lite amid Bibles and churches, so that
he knows his duty. Christ has offered to
do all for that man that divine Savior
can offer to do for dying soul. Heaven
has been offered him, yea, pushed upon
him, and yet he hes not accepted
it, and to-day he sits, DELHI
erately allowing his chances for life
to go away from him. WHAT do you say
OF that one? "Hallucmated, says ore;
"Monomaniacal, says another; "PIay-
ing the fool" says another. o, how
many there are taking just thst position!
There is such g thing as pyromauia, an
insanity which disposes one to destroy
buildings by fire! but who would have
thought that there was 8 pyromania of
the Immortal nature, and that any one
could be SO struck through with that in
to consume the soul?
Awake, man! awake, woman! from the
phentasia, real or affected. Take Christ.
Escape for eternity. Just see what has
ucen done for you. Lift the tnoruy esp
from the brow of Jesus, and see the price
that was paid for your liberation. Look
at the side, and see where the spear went
in and moved round and round, amid bro
ken arteries, the blood rushing forth in
awful sacrifice for your sins. o, wrap
those bare and mutilated feet of the dying
Lord in your womanly lap, for they were
torn in d hard tramp for your soul. Q, for
tears to weep over this liberation of
Christ o, fora broken heart to worship
Him. o, for an omnipotent impulse
strong enough &c throw this whole au-
dience down at the feet of crucifed and
risen Jesus. We must repent. We
must believe. We must be saved. I
cannot consent to have you lose your
souls. Come with me, and SIS in the